in reply to perl daemon

If you're asking if you're on the right track, I think so. In theory, one would start it via /etc/init.d in Linux and the system services in Windows, just as you say.

Do you have a more specific question? It's difficult to understand exactly what you're asking as you seem to have answered yourself quite nicely.

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Re: Re: perl daemon
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 05, 2003 at 00:26 UTC
    Lets assume the following piece of code: 
    #/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my $count = 0;
while (1) {
 open(FILE,"filename.txt");
 print FILE "$count - \n";
 close(FILE);
 sleep(100);
 count++;
}

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    If i wanted that piece of code to run at startup, does anything special need to be done with it, to run it from /etc/init.d

    If the init script is as follows (cut down for example purposes): 
    case "$1" in
  start)
    daemon /usr/local/bin/myscript.pl
        ;;
  stop)
    #stop stuff here
        ;;
esac

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      perldoc perlipc has a section on creating daemon processes (for UNIX).
      For Windows, you may not need to do anything special other than adding the script as a service but I'm no Windows expert.

      Hope this helps.

      --perlplexer
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